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Trump’s campaign in Colorado amid false gang claims and anti-immigrant rhetoric: Live updates

Trump’s campaign in Colorado amid false gang claims and anti-immigrant rhetoric: Live updates

Trump denigrates Detroit in a speech to the city’s business leaders

Donald Trump is holding an immigration rally in Aurora, Colorado, where local officials have rejected his claim that the Denver suburb is a “war zone” taken over by Venezuelan gangs.

In announcing the rally, the Trump campaign said: “Aurora, Colorado has become a ‘war zone’ due to the influx of violent Venezuelan prison gang members from Tren de Aragua.”

During the Sept. 10 debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump said, “They’re taking over the cities. They take over buildings. They force their way in.”

The rally comes after Trump disparaged the entire city of Detroit, Michigan, on Thursday and warned that the entire country, like the Motor City, could descend into “chaos” if his Democratic rival wins the November election, which has already faced a major backlash triggered.

Former President Barack Obama, meanwhile, gave an impassioned speech during a campaign stop in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, denouncing the Republican’s character and mocking his “constant attempts to sell you things,” from gold sneakers to branded Bibles and himself supported Harris’ candidacy for the presidency.

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Even Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Republican colleagues are outraged by her “idiot” hurricane conspiracies

House Republicans are increasingly frustrated with their colleague Marjorie Taylor Greene and her bizarre and debunked claims that Democrats “control the weather” following recent hurricane devastation in the southeastern United States.

Georgia’s fiery MAGA has doubled down on her conspiracy, prompting even her party colleagues to speculate that she “needs” it. [her] Head examined.”

Greene claimed online last week that “they” can control the weather after Hurricane Helene killed more than two dozen people in her state and more than 230 people overall. On Wednesday, she doubled down on her statement, clarifying that she was referring to government organizations like NOAA.

Mike BediganOctober 11, 2024 9:00 p.m

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Trump is pushing back on police-rejected claims that Aurora apartment complexes have been taken over by gangs

Trump said during his Friday rally in Aurora that he was in the city to “draw the world’s attention to one of the most egregious betrayals ever inflicted by a nation’s leader on his own people.”

“We are led by stupid people, we can’t take it any longer,” he added.

“Kamala imported an army of illegal alien gang members and migrant criminals from Third World dungeons,” the former president argued.

“From jails and prisons, insane asylums and mental institutions, and she has arranged for them to be beautifully relocated to your community to pray for innocent American citizens,” he added. “That’s what they do. And nowhere is it more evident than here. In Aurora, several apartment complexes have been taken over by the brutal Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua.”

Gustaf KilanderOctober 11, 2024 8:58 p.m

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Can Kamala Harris beat Donald Trump? Latest survey updates

Vice President Kamala Harris will face Donald Trump in less than a month when Americans cast their ballots in the 2024 election.

With only a few weeks left to go: Trump is leading in several swing states, according to a new poll, although the differences between the two candidates are largely too small to call.

But with the latest, Trump could lose control of the older generation of voters New York Times Polls show the two candidates separated by a hair – and Harris with a three-point lead.

Alicja HagopianOctober 11, 2024 8:30 p.m

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Live: Harris campaigns in Arizona as Election Day approaches

The IndependentOctober 11, 2024 8:25 p.m

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Trump’s campaign team is using mugshots of gang members as a backdrop for an event in Colorado

The Trump campaign is using mugshots of gang members arrested in Aurora as a backdrop for his speech in the city Friday afternoon.

According to TND, Jose Miguel Reyes-Perez and Juan Carlos Mejia-Espana were two of 10 members identified by the Aurora Police Department last month. Their mugshots were on display Friday on the stage behind Trump’s podium.

Police said they arrested Reyes-Perez earlier this year on charges of aggravated assault, menacing and vehicle theft.

Meija-Espana was arrested following an alleged domestic dispute over a gun.

Gustaf KilanderOctober 11, 2024 8:25 p.m

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The polls are clear: Kamala Harris’ honeymoon is over

Where will the 2024 election be decided?

Donald Trump is on the rise. A new Quinnipiac poll in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan this week showed him leading in the latter two; The RealClearPolitics polling average now has him ahead for the first time in months in the state of Michigan, a state that rejected Hillary Clinton in 2016 but flipped back to Democratic control in 2020.

But what’s really clear – what the Quinnipiac poll and every other poll on the race shows this week – is how close the race is in every state. No candidate has a lead larger than the low single digits in more than half a dozen states, and all will play an important role in the Electoral College.

John BowdenOctober 11, 2024 8:00 p.m

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Maryland’s Senate race was friendly — until it really, really wasn’t

It was a mood that lasted about thirty seconds.

Just moments into the debate on Maryland Public Television (MPT), moderated by NBC’s Chuck Todd, the two candidates had abandoned their friendliness and exchanged accusations of dishonesty. That’s not only a sign of how passionate politics is in 2024, but also what’s at stake in Maryland, where Hogan’s candidacy turned a once-safe Democratic U.S. Senate seat into a real one for the first time in many years competition.

John BowdenOctober 11, 2024 7:30 p.m

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Trump’s top general calls ex-president “through-and-through fascist” and “most dangerous person for this country,” a new book says

Mark Milley, the US Army general whom Donald Trump appointed as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, now says the current Republican presidential candidate is “a fascist through and through” and says no man has ever posed a greater danger to the United States States as the man who served as the 45th President of the United States.

Milley, a decorated military officer who became a target of right-wing scorn after it emerged that he had raised concerns about Trump’s mental stability following his 2020 election loss to Joe Biden, is profiled by journalist Bob Woodward in his new book: War, equally incredibly concerned about the prospect of a second Trump term in the White House. The Independent I received a copy before the book’s release date of October 15th.

Woodward writes that after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol by a riotous mob of supporters of the then-president, Milley insisted on arranging a meeting with then-freshman Attorney General Merrick Garland to pressure him to investigate domestic violent extremism and far-right militia movements.

Andrew FeinbergOctober 11, 2024 7:00 p.m

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Trump, who is lagging far behind with women, lashes out at “The View” host in his latest tirade

And as the former president struggles to heal his self-inflicted wounds, Harris has laid out a vigorous campaign plan. The vice president has held several rallies and smaller events and has also gone on an interview tour to reach a broader audience. Trump also stays on track and has several events in his weekly calendar.

However, as the former president plays to crowds of supporters at his rallies, he clearly has the larger audience that Harris reaches with his performances in mind 60 minutes, The view and even the Spotify podcast Call her dad.

On Wednesday, at a rally in Pennsylvania, he highlighted some of his opponent’s media tours on stage and played a clip of Harris’ interview with him The view. Sunny Hostin, who asked Harris what she would have done differently than Joe Biden over the past four years if she had been president, became the butt of ridicule.

John BowdenOctober 11, 2024 6:30 p.m

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Trump ally Roger Stone suggests sending “armed guards” to polling stations in an undercover video

The Republicans’ infamous self-proclaimed “dirty fraudster” was secretly recorded responding to a question about how to stop Democrats from “stealing” the election while mingling with attendees at his event in Jacksonville, Florida : “A Night with Roger Stone”.

“We have to fight this state by state, but you have to be ready,” Stone can be heard responding in the undercover recording first given to him Rolling Stone by documentary filmmaker Lauren Windsor.

James LiddellOctober 11, 2024 6:00 p.m

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